r/Starlink

I’m seeking advice about setting up Starlink in a rural home I’m purchasing. There is no internet service in the area. I need to know what I need to purchase to get the system up and running soon after settlement. The home is 2600-square-foot, lots of beams and walls. The garage is detached and I would like to extend the signal outdoors. I need good speed as I work on large files at home. I’m not a computer savvy person, please help

I am very curious to see what the traceroute troubleshooting command shows when you blast your packets into LEO. Can some very kind person please provide a screenshot in the comments? Maybe to 8.8.8.8? Feel free to redact your home IP address please. Thanks from a meek Spectrum customer.

I live in the UK and going to be camping in a field with no signal next Saturday and wanted to watch the football. Was looking at the website but found it a bit opaque so was hoping for help. What's the situation for the hardware, can I get it ordered to my house and then after the weekend send it back and just spend the £40.00 for the one month? We have a diesel generator on the land, should that be suitable to charge it? How quickly does the hardware take to arrive when ordered? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Meine ehrliche Erfahrung mit Starlink mitten in Frankfurt
Ich wollte hier mal meine Erfahrung mit Starlink teilen, weil mir so eine Einschätzung damals selbst sehr geholfen hätte.
Ich wohne mitten in Frankfurt und hatte vorher Vodafone. Das Problem war, dass Vodafone bei uns öfter Ausfälle hatte beziehungsweise die Verbindung immer wieder abgebrochen ist. Deshalb habe ich mich nach einer Alternative umgeschaut und bin bei Starlink gelandet.
Die Bestellung und Lieferung liefen wirklich problemlos. Ich habe montags bestellt, mittwochs war alles da und die Einrichtung hat direkt funktioniert. Da gab es nichts zu meckern.
Ich hatte das Max-Paket gebucht. Anfangs lag der Preis bei 65 € im Monat, später wurde er auf 75 € erhöht. Das war für mich auch ein Grund, nochmal zu überlegen, ob sich Starlink für uns wirklich lohnt. 75 € im Monat sind für Internet schon ordentlich viel Geld.
Am Anfang war ich wirklich begeistert. Ich hatte teilweise um die 500 Mbit/s und die Ausrichtung beziehungsweise Position war laut Starlink-App immer bei 100 %. Die Schüssel stand relativ frei und eigentlich so, wie man es sich für Starlink vorstellt.
Nach ein paar Tagen hat sich die Geschwindigkeit aber eher bei durchschnittlich 200 Mbit/s eingependelt. Höher ging es dann meistens nicht mehr. Dazu kamen immer wieder kurze Ausfälle. Gerade beim Fußballschauen, YouTube oder Streaming war das schon nervig. Teilweise hatten wir mit Starlink sogar mehr Unterbrechungen als vorher mit Vodafone.
Deshalb sind wir am Ende wieder zurück zu Vodafone gegangen. Bei uns gibt es in der Stadt eine 1000-Mbit/s-Leitung und aktuell auch ein Angebot für 19,99 € im Monat. Das ist im Vergleich zu 75 € für Starlink einfach deutlich attraktiver, wenn die Leitung stabil läuft.
Mein Fazit:
Wenn man auf dem Dorf wohnt, keine gute Leitung hat oder maximal 250–300 Mbit/s verfügbar sind, würde ich Starlink auf jeden Fall empfehlen. Gerade wenn sonst nur langsames oder instabiles Internet möglich ist, kann Starlink wirklich eine starke Lösung sein — auch für 75 € im Monat.
Wenn man aber mitten in der Stadt wohnt und Zugriff auf Kabel oder Glasfaser mit 1000 Mbit/s hat, würde ich Starlink eher nicht empfehlen. Dafür ist es meiner Meinung nach zu teuer und bei mir persönlich nicht stabil genug gewesen.
Für ländliche Gegenden: klare Empfehlung.
Für die Stadt mit guter Alternative: eher nicht.

Hi reddit,

In my region, residential (max) comes with Standart 4 (Router mini package); should I buy Router 3 separately to get better performance or will I be better off investing into the mesh system instead?

I placed an order on July 1st for a rental kit on July 1st. The estimated delivery is July 6th - 21st. How long do the rental kits take to ship? I’m in the northern part of the United States.

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I live in rural NY in a cellular dead zone, and I do not see that changing anytime soon.

My parents get their internet through a point-to-point wireless link that I provide from my house, which is about 500 yards away. I was lucky enough to get fiber run to my house years ago because I was teaching remotely at the time, and the local provider used that as the reason to extend service. About 20 other homes eventually signed up once the fiber was brought in.

The issue is power outages.

My parents have an instant-on backup generator, so their house stays powered during an outage. My house, however, does not have a whole-house generator. I travel a lot, and I really do not want to spend $10,000+ on a Generac just to keep my internet equipment running when I am not home. My current battery backup only lasts about 60 minutes.

When my power goes out, my parents lose internet because the point-to-point link from my house goes down, even though their house still has power.

I am looking for the least-hassle emergency backup solution.

Could Starlink be used as a temporary failover internet connection at their house? If so, what equipment would I need besides the Starlink dish to make it automatically fail over when the P2P link from my house goes down?

Has anyone here used Starlink as a backup WAN/failover connection for a rural home network? I am especially interested in real-world setups, router recommendations, and whether this is reliable enough for emergency use during power outages.

I made it clearer, less repetitive, and framed the actual technical question so people on Reddit are more likely to answer.

Why is my starlink only downloading less than 50mbs consistently when my device has registered speeds over 1gbs in the past and is set to 5ghz only, with no local area congestion in a vacant rural area, a latency of 23ms, no obstructions, perfect alignment, no ethernet cable, full signal, up to date in app and on equipment, while close to the router, throttling non-stop and getting 150-190mbs on very rare occasion, with no service plan limits with the 200mbs data plan? There’s no businesses anywhere around me to be effecting any ground stations, as well as only a handful of people I’ve never seen with a Starlink in a 10+ mile radius. It was working perfect the first time we set it up a couple days ago for hours, then stopped. The Starlink app says my speeds are consistently around 200mbs of course, but that’s absolutely not correct.

So I'm contemplating getting starlink, but I have some questions.

I do currently have home internet it is not fiber but it is high speed. But I also have a summer vacation property that has horrible internet service. I am thinking about changing all my internet to starlink and being able to take my internet with me to my summer property when I need to and then use it at home. Or take it camping when I go.

I am currently paying over $100 per month for Internet service.

I live in SW Ontario, Canada

What kind of equipment would I need & approximate cost in CAD. Thanks.

Hi all,
Trying to talk my parents into Starlink for their cottage. But they are hesitant to switch because they have a landline with their current internet. The landline will alert them when the power goes out so they can come down and make sure pipes don’t freeze.

Anyone know of a way starlink could do something similar?

Hi reddit,

I was curious on what is the maximum speed you can hit on Starlink but couldn't seem to find any specific posts talking about it. So, as the title suggests, I wanted to know the highest download speeds you ever got on it (please also add what hardware did you achieve it on)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/s/DwpW414s8C

It's been 3 months since my last post on this issue, and there has still been no resolution despite 1 or 2 updates. It amazes me that I only started having this issue just this year. Is anyone else experiencing major signal issues with their Gen 3 router?

At this point, I am considering purchasing a 3rd party router for my house, so please suggest some good ones. My budget is $50 (I hope that is realistic). Additionally, if I get a 3rd party router, should I put the Starlink router in bypass mode? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing that?

I recently got my first Starlink Standard 4 and for testing I have it pointing south. I’m in Ohio so it wants me to align directly north, but unfortunately getting a clear sky pointing north would be quite a challenge. What’s interesting is even though it complains about misalignment in the app it’s almost always 100% for a few weeks now.

I’m working on permanently mounting it now, would it be ok to keep pointing south or should I take the extra time to get it mounting pointing north?

I lost internet at home and decided to activate the Starlink after being on standby mode. 16 hours later and still waiting.

This also happened to me last year during the fall which took 10 hours.

When I first got Starlink a few years ago it was literally instant from standby to roam. Not sure what’s happening here but definitely not happy with their service.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

I’m a U.S. citizen and live in the United States. Before traveling to Bolivia for a month, I purchased a Starlink kit from Home Depot and intended to use it with the Unlimited Roam plan, but I never activated it.
Now I’m in Bolivia and want to activate it in case I need it. When I try to activate it here, I get a message saying I may be charged an additional fee because I’m activating it in a different country from where the kit was purchased.
Has anyone dealt with this before? Would it be better to use a VPN and activate it as if I were in the United States and then use the Unlimited Roam plan in Bolivia, or should I just activate it here in Bolivia and pay any additional fee if there is one?
Any advice or personal experiences would be appreciated.